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Festival, Programmer Picks

Meet the Programmers 2025

April 23, 2025

Meet our programmers who watch films year-round to pluck the best of the best for the Seattle International Film Festival.

Festival, SIFFcast

What The Femme Roundtable

April 14, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with five directors with films in the WTF program.

Festival

At the Hair Salon with Deadly Cuts Director Rachel Carey

April 13, 2021

We asked director Rachel Carey for a list of her fave hair movies in celebration of her blackly comic feature debut Deadly Cuts, set in a working-class Dublin hair salon.

Festival, SIFFcast

Documentary Shorts Roundtable

April 13, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 Roundtable discussion with several documentary short filmmakers.

Festival, SIFFcast

SIFFcast: SIFF 2021 Summertime Q&A

April 12, 2021

Recording of a SIFF 2021 live Q&A with Summertime director Carlos López Estrada plus actors/writers/poets Tyris Winter and Mila Cuda.

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Events, Festival

Tracy Rector and the Journey to cINeDIGENOUS

April 10, 2021

Honoring the past and present of Indigenous film education and curation at SIFF.

Festival, Video

Seattle International Film Festival 2021 Montage

April 9, 2021

A montage of clips from 2021 Seattle International Film Festival films, produced by First Sight Productions.

Festival

Festival Bingo

April 8, 2021

Have some bingo fun with these tips on how to get the best out of your 2021 Seattle International Film Festival.

Mayor’s Award For Outstanding Achievement In Film

April 8, 2021

The recipient 2021 Mayor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film is Vivian Hua (華婷婷): writer, filmmaker, organizer, and Executive Director of Northwest Film Forum.

Festival, SIFFcast

SIFFcast: Brazilian Cinema

April 8, 2021

SIFFcast sits down with filmmakers Iuli Gerbase (The Pink Cloud) and Cássio Pereira Dos Santo (Valentina) to talk about their feature debuts, both screening as part of SIFF's 2021 Ibero-American Cinema program.

Festival, SIFFcast

SIFFcast: Northwest Connections Filmmaker Roundtable

April 7, 2021

SIFFcast sits down with a few of the filmmakers from the 47th Seattle International Film Festival's Northwest Connections program to discuss casting locally, filming in Washington, and finishing their films in the midst of a pandemic.

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